The readings today are helpful to each one of us as we look to discern God's call. Both Samuel and St Peter live in a context of faith. For the former it is the temple at Shiloh and the latter it is the community gathered around John the Baptist. Both of them have others to advise or prompt them, in one case it is Eli and the other it is the two disciples who tell St Andrew of Jesus who, in turn, informs his brother. Both men are responsive to the call and curious to know God's will for each of them. The result is that both are brought into relationship with God so that they receive a mission: for Samuel it is to be a prophet of the Lord and for St Peter to be Cephas - the Rock - Peter who would lead the Apostles and be the first of them to acknowledge Jesus: "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." (Mtt 16: 16) The questions we can ask ourselves : who has influenced us in faith?; how we have responded to that prompting?; what mission do we have in bringing Christ to others?
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